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  Wartime Violation of Italian American Civil Liberties Act
Italian Americans who were taken into custody during the initial roundup following the attack on Pearl Harbor, and prior to the United States declaration of war against Italy
Italian American fishermen who were prevented from fishing in prohibited zones and therefore undable to pursue their livelihoods
Italian American railroad workers who were prevented from working in prohibited zones.
www.usdoj.gov /crt/wviacla.htm   (397 words)

  
 Italian American
Italian American heritage and culture and all issues related to Italian Americans and Italy.
Italian American Cultural Organization to honor our families who emigrated to the Americas from Southern Italy and Sicily.
community where italian americans can exchange ideas, thoughts,links to italian related sites,such as culture, sports,travel,recipies,links to other webpages and many more.
w.webring.com /hub?ring=italianamerican   (368 words)

  
  Italian American Studies at Stony Brook
Italian American studies addresses itself to the experiences of persons of Italian descent in North and South America with a particular emphasis on experiences in the United States of America.
Formal study of Italian American culture, in the university, is a relatively recent phenomenon.
Italian American studies offers students an opportunity to survey the developments of the field in general, and in history, literature, media, and language study in particular.
www.italianstudies.org /iam   (292 words)

  
  Italian American History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Italian Americans are residents of the United States who trace their ancestry to Italy or to other regions where the Italian language is widely spoken.
Some Italian American fishermen on the West Coast were forced to surrender their boats for the duration of the war, the exhibit organizers said.
However, some naturalized Italian Americans considered dangerous by the military were forced to evacuate military zones (areas declared sensitive by military authorities) after October 1942 and were not allowed to return until Italy surrendered to Allied forces in September 1943.
home.comcast.net /~m.quagliata/iahistory.html   (2780 words)

  
  Italian_Immigration
The Italians are responsible for one of the largest exoduses in history, and a large amount of the Italian emigration flowed to the United States.
The Italians brought their culture and beliefs to the United States and over the years this group has contributed to the diversity of the nation, as the Italian Americans have grown to be a significant ethnicity.
Italian immigrants brought their family-centered culture to America, which resulted in their highly concentrated settlements, ìLittle Italies.î Kin and entire villages would migrate to America and form these "Little Italies", which were clustered heavily in the Northeast cities.
nhs.needham.k12.ma.us /cur/kane98/kane_p6_immig/italianII/rjs.html   (2820 words)

  
 Italian American : Italiansrus Clothing & Novelties : CafePress.com
Italian American : Italiansrus Clothing & Novelties : CafePress.com
features over 1,500 pages of information on Italy and Italian Culture.
Learn more about the traditions, heritage and way of life that make Italians who they are.
www.cafepress.com /italiansrus/362387   (57 words)

  
 Italian American Web Site of New York: MAIN page
August 25th, 2000 is Italian at Shea stadium.
To purchase CLICK HERE Plenty of other Italian books are also available.
This is the place to find Italian American Political Organizations, such as, the democratic leadership council and the Italian American Political Coalition.
www.italian-american.com /main.htm   (902 words)

  
 Italian American Cultural Society Home Page
We are today's Italian Americans, a creative and productive people, filled with the life and energy that exemplify vibrant and deep-rooted traditions, nourished and preserved over the years that are today our legacy.
Operated by the Italian American Cultural Society, the Center is governed by a Board of Directors who are elected by the membership.
The Italian American newspaper, underwritten by the Center, is a monthly, bilingual publication that provides Italian Americans and others in the metro area with information about the Center and its events in addition to news and views about Italy.
www.iacsonline.net /index.htm   (661 words)

  
 New speaker gives voice to Italian-Americans - The Boston Globe
Her father, Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., was the mayor of Baltimore and a congressman, and her mother, Annunciata D'Alesandro, was an Italian immigrant.
Marisa Iocco, a 48-year-old chef who "always votes for candidates whose names end in a vowel," said she had been reading about Pelosi before the midterm election and was rooting for her to become speaker.
Massachusetts, especially in Boston and Lawrence, was one of the many places where southern Italian immigrants settled after the great migration at the turn of the last century.
www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2006/12/31/new_speaker_gives_voice_to_italian_americans   (815 words)

  
 Italian-American heritage - Kieto's story, music, NIAF and Italian Clubs in the United States.
The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) is the major advocate in Washington, DC for nearly 15 million Italian Americans, the nations's fifth largest ethnic group.
The Italian American One Voice Committee is a national network of activists enabling the 25 million members of the Italian-American community to act as one united voice when dealing with defamation, discrimination and negative stereotyping of our grand culture and heritage.
Fieri is an organization of Italian American adults between the ages of 18 and 39.
www.kieto.com /Italian_American.htm   (1057 words)

  
 Italian American One Voice Coalition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Italian-American One Voice Coalition is a national network of activists enabling the Italian American community to act as one united voice when dealing with defamation, discrimination and negative stereotyping.
The Wartime Violation Of Italian American Civil Liberties Act was passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate.
The Italian American One Voice Coalition is a national network of activists enabling the 25 million members of the Italian American community to act as one united voice when dealing with defamation, discrimination and negative stereotyping of our grand culture and heritage.
members.aol.com /ItaliaAmOneVoice   (1419 words)

  
 Italian American One Voice Coalition
Italian-American One Voice Coalition is a national network of activists enabling the Italian American community to act as one united voice when dealing with defamation, discrimination and negative stereotyping.
The Wartime Violation Of Italian American Civil Liberties Act was passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate.
The Italian American One Voice Coalition is a national network of activists enabling the 25 million members of the Italian American community to act as one united voice when dealing with defamation, discrimination and negative stereotyping of our grand culture and heritage.
iaonevoicecoalition.org /index.html   (1527 words)

  
 The Italian American Channel - Our Programs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Italian Americans have a passion for their heritage and culture.
Italian Extreme is a weekly series featuring some of the world’s most daring athletes who venture to places where few dare to tread.
An Italian mother and daughter share their kitchen and favorite recipes, which have been handed down from generation to generation.
www.italianamericanchannel.com /programs.html   (2684 words)

  
 Immigration...Italian: A Century in the Spotlight
As they gained more experience, Italian Americans were able to move into a wider range of careers, and became business owners and managers in greater numbers.
For many Americans, the city’s longtime mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia, served as an energetic and erudite ambassador both for his city and for his national heritage.
Today, Italian Americans are represented throughout U.S. society, from the Supreme Court to the National Academy of Sciences to the National Basketball Association.
memory.loc.gov /learn/features/immig/italian9.html   (753 words)

  
 Open Directory - Society: Ethnicity: Italian: Italian-American   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
American Italian Historical Association - An interdisciplinary association for the study of the Italian American experiences.
Italian Americans of Austin, Texas - Perpetuate the heritage of Italian Americans, heighten the awareness of Italian culture, participate in social and cultural activities.
Italian Cultural Society of Washington D.C. - Non-profit organization which creates opportunities to explore the many facets of Italian culture, and to strengthen bonds between the Italian and American people.
dmoz.org /Society/Ethnicity/Italian/Italian-American   (968 words)

  
 Welcome to ItalianAmericans.com!
In it's 70th year, the goal of the Italian American Brotherhood Club remains dedicated to support, plan, develop, provide, and operate a social service organization which will serve a public purpose and provide for the needy as well as afford educational opportunities through a continuing scholarship program.
Italia Unita's main event, the Italian Festival, was launched in 1995 and has become a benchmark in the Italian American community.
The Italian festival allows native Italians to recapture the essence of community, while second and third generation Italian- American's gain an appreciation of their culture.
www.italianamericans.com /organizations.html   (563 words)

  
 Order Sons of Italy in America
At the turn of the 20th century, a growing tide of Italians, largely from the south, immigrated to the United States where work was plentiful and land was cheap.
Today, the descendants of those early Italian immigrants number nearly 16 million, according to the U.S. census of 2000, although through intermarriage, the number of people in the United States with at least one Italian grandparent is estimated to be about 26 million.
Social scientists strive to explain how so many millions of Italian immigrants achieved success in America despite the challenges of a new language, foreign economic and commercial practices, and the initial prejudice and hostility of an American society unfamiliar with Italians and their customs.
www.osia.org /public/culture/culture_intro.asp   (381 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen: Books: Lidia Matticchio Bastianich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
One of the signal features of Italian American cooking is the mixing of meat with southern Italian tomato pasta dishes, as in Sugo di Carne and Spaghetti and meatballs.
Another signal feature of Italian American cooking is the apotheosis of garlic, which is used with even greater abandon than in the Italian south.
Where Italians typically slice raw garlic, so you can easily skirt around it if you wish to keep a sweet breath, Americans are known to crush the daylights out of the cloves, making it's taste stronger and harder to avoid.
www.amazon.ca /Lidias-Italian-American-Kitchen-Matticchio-Bastianich/dp/037541150X   (2186 words)

  
 Dana Gioia Online - Italian-American Poetry
As the Little Italies disappear, and families disperse to the suburbs, the descendants of Italian immigration gradually merge their once sharply differentiated ethnic identity in mainstream America.
Today there are so many interesting poets of Italian descent writing that it is difficult to draw any narrow generalizations about their wide-ranging work.
In Italian culture one often notices two conflicting impulses—one to preserve the richness of the past, the other to reject it in search of the new.
www.danagioia.net /essays/eitalamer.htm   (2683 words)

  
 German-American Internment
But researchers are fleshing out this obscure footnote to American history: the treatment of 600,000 Italian citizens in the United States who were classified as "enemy aliens" after World War II began.
About 1,600 Italian citizens were interned, all of them here, and about 10,000 Italian-Americans were forced to move from their houses in California coastal communities to inland homes.
The Italian immigrants were caught up, to a milder degree, in the hysteria that swept the West Coast after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
www.serve.com /shea/germusa/itintern.htm   (1497 words)

  
 Italian and Italian American Cou
Emphasis is put on the idiomatic peculiarities of the Italian language and the relation of Italian to the structure of English.
The specific ways they have contributed artistically and socially to the American cultural scene from the first wave of Italian American immigration to the present is considered.
Deriving archetypal origins from the Hermes figure of Greek mythology, the gangster is presented as a trickster used by Italian American writers to serve a variety of storytelling purposes.
www.stonybrook.edu /eurolangs/sp06_italian_courses.htm   (1263 words)

  
 John D. Calandra Italian American Institute: Community Affairs
The Community Programs division of the Institute works collaboratively with varied and diverse organizations to develop, support and coordinate projects that promote and celebrate Italian American culture, heritage and the experience within the Italian American community and community at large.
This division serves as a comprehensive resource for information pertaining to Italian and Italian American culture and, as importantly, as a vital supportive link to outside groups involved in the coordination of special projects.
New York's Italian American Community Calendar – The most comprehensive listing of Italian and Italian American Events for New York.
qcpages.qc.edu /calandra/community   (399 words)

  
 Welcome to IAWA - Italian American Writers Association
Lucia Ducci is an Italian Ph.D student at the University of Florence who is researching U.S.-Italian relations during the Giolittian Era, and currently teaching Italian at the College of Holy Cross.
Italian Americana, in cooperation with the American Italian Historical Association, is the first and only cultural as well as historical review dedicated to the Italian experience in the New World.
The Modern Language Association’s Italian American Literature Discussion Group is seeking participants in a forum on Italian Americans in Hollywood, to be held at a future M.
www.iawa.net /news.shtml   (2745 words)

  
 Mercer County Italian American Festival
In a tribute to Paterson, New Jersey native and accomplished Italian American, Lou Costello, the Mercer County Italian American Festival is proud to have 'The Abbott and Costello Show' with Gil 'Bud' Palmer and Lou Sciara.
Her recently revised CD, Bridges to Italy, includes Italian operatic arias, art songs, and popular songs, and is a tribute to the influence that Italian music has had on her life.
Italian born and raised Giada Valenti transports her audience back and forth across the Atlantic in an evening filled with emotion and elegance.
www.italianamericanfestival.com /entertainment.cfm   (1846 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Italian American": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Italian American Heritage: A Companion to Literature and Arts (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) by George Leonard (Author)
She had read an article about my work on Italian American women writers that had dust appeared in the Neu,York Tithes and felt compelled to write to me....
Italian American English uses the grammar and word list of the majority North American language,...
www.amazon.com /phrase/Italian-American   (644 words)

  
 Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen at Italian Wine Merchants
Just as Lidia introduced new Italian regional dishes to her appreciative clientele in Queens in the seventies, so she dazzles us now.
Laced with stories about her experiences in America and her discoveries as a cook, this enchanting book is both a pleasure to read and a joy to cook from.
Italian Wine Merchants is not responsible for errors or omissions.
www.italianwinemerchant.com /Books/Lidias_Italian_American_Kitchen.htm   (157 words)

  
 Italian American Museum
The Metropolitan stood north of the port of entry for millions of immigrants from Italy.
To Italian immigrants, Caruso symbolized that "America could be made".
The Italian American Museum is proud to present the exhibition, Caruso: The Life and Work of an Opera Legend.
www.italianamericanmuseum.org /news/newscaruso.htm   (304 words)

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